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Because you now did it to yourself.

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[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 120 points 2 weeks ago (53 children)

Is it because woman? Like holy shit, Biden was an old fuck and still won last time. Hillary didn't win. Wtf, is it really because woman!?

[–] Denalduh@lemmy.world 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (30 children)

I know they're not done counting everything yet, but as it currently stands..

2020 Biden - 81.3m
2024 Harris - 66.2m

I'm disgusted with our country.

[–] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I was looking at those numbers too. And if you compare Trump's 24 numbers to 2020, he lost about 4M votes this time. So it's not like the 20M from Biden voted for Trump this time, they just didn't vote.

20 million people are going to be the reason for the death of Democracy.

Assholes.

[–] andymouse 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The non-voters had nothing to do with this. They literally did not participate.

Any real democracy would count the non-voters as part of the results. 20M not voting? OK then, any policies that affect everyone can no longer be enacted. No new laws. No new wars. Government can then maintain plumbing and provide public services, that's it.

Why isn't that the case? Why is it not a requirement for people to vote for government to have power?

Democracy...? Sure. Whatever hope you need to feel, friend, see you in the streets I hope.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why isn’t that the case?

There is no law in the US mandating that people vote. I can only speculate as to how that started, and why that's still the case.

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